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New No, I meant: What's that freaking hyphen doing there?
New It's another illustration of my weird typing skills.
"3-feet" is a unitary item in the sentence, so it should be joined by a hyphen.

It's probably me mis-remembering some grammar rule rather than being actually correct. No time to check at the moment.

;-)

Thanks.

Cheers,
Scott.
New "I have a 6-foot ladder"
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Drew
New Re: "I have a 6-foot ladder"
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-use-a-hyphen?page=2

Though it probably could be left out since there is little chance for ambiguity in my case. And the "of" there in my first example probably complicates the rules...

FWIW.

Cheers,
Scott.
New My example was a compound modifier, yours was just wrong :-P
But it looked the same as mine. I frequently make that same typo and have to catch it on a second read.
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Drew
New I used to subscribe to Car and Driver magazine...
At least one of the writers there used to have fun with compound adjectives with 15 hyphens between them... Probably helped me forget the rules.

Cheers,
Scott.
New One of the authors I worked with called herself the Queen of Unnecessary Capitalization
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Drew
New I do that too. I blame it on taking German as a foreign language...
New Didn't take German, but . . .
I use a lot of capitalization to emphasize important words in a paragraph, especially in recipes. As for hyphenation, I do it how I want, and English teachers will just have to live with it.
New I do it with quotes
If I'm quoting a single word at the end of a sentence, the period (or question mark, etc) goes outside the quotes. I understand it's done this way in some other English-speaking countries.

I'll also put the period/question mark outside the quotes if it's not logically related to the quote.

Eg:
Can you say with a straight face, "Trump is a competent president"?
The quoted part is not a question. The question is about the quoted part.
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Drew
New Dunno when it was that modrin-Muricans morphed into eschewing Capitalization..
All I Know is that: those early-Americans we are so fond of quoting: used Caps pretty much as you describe. As do I.



But what do I Know!?

[Caps saves n keystrokes/merely for italics within the antediluvian interfaces, up with which we must put ..even in 2017 er, qed]
New No it isn't. In "there's a 3-ft sinkhole" it is, but in "the water is 3 ft deep" it's separate words
You don't have three-children either, you have three children. Your car doesn't have 4-wheels, it has 4 wheels. But it has 4-wheel drive or 4-wheel-drive, since what it has is a single drive system, one attribute of which is that it works on all four wheels; that's what makes it four-wheel.

Not that I was going for you in particular, Scott; I thought you'd do a double-take at having it pointed out and perhaps be able to tell me where it actually comes from. I've been wondering my head off since about 2010; before that, you rarely saw these confused, but now it seems almost nobody can get it right.

Anybody else have any idea how come?
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Christian R. Conrad
Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi

(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
New I blame Twitter and Autocorrect. They're always responsible. ;-)
Seriously, I dunno.

English is such a bastard language that if one (or I, anyway) doesn't frequently review the various rules and conventions then it's very easy to break them.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who got tripped up on "due to/owing to" a year or so ago.)
     Corpus Christi looks like it's getting hammered. - (mmoffitt) - (20)
         Fingers crossed that it's not as horrible as it might be... - (Another Scott) - (17)
             What's wrong with "They're talking about 3 feet of rain"? -NT - (CRConrad) - (16)
                 Phrasing... - (Another Scott) - (15)
                     Hard to comprehend - (drook) - (1)
                         I'm having a hard time picturing 5" of rain, never mind 50". -NT - (static)
                     No, I meant: What's that freaking hyphen doing there? -NT - (CRConrad) - (12)
                         It's another illustration of my weird typing skills. - (Another Scott) - (11)
                             "I have a 6-foot ladder" -NT - (drook) - (8)
                                 Re: "I have a 6-foot ladder" - (Another Scott) - (7)
                                     My example was a compound modifier, yours was just wrong :-P - (drook) - (6)
                                         I used to subscribe to Car and Driver magazine... - (Another Scott) - (5)
                                             One of the authors I worked with called herself the Queen of Unnecessary Capitalization -NT - (drook) - (4)
                                                 I do that too. I blame it on taking German as a foreign language... -NT - (Another Scott) - (3)
                                                     Didn't take German, but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                                                         I do it with quotes - (drook)
                                                         Dunno when it was that modrin-Muricans morphed into eschewing Capitalization.. - (Ashton)
                             No it isn't. In "there's a 3-ft sinkhole" it is, but in "the water is 3 ft deep" it's separate words - (CRConrad) - (1)
                                 I blame Twitter and Autocorrect. They're always responsible. ;-) - (Another Scott)
         Corpus Christi missed the very worst of it. - (a6l6e6x)
         Current Baddest-datum seems: "highest August precipitable water levels" (evah??) - (Ashton)

This is untested and you're my guinea pig.
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